Social Media Marketing

Digital marketing can seem very confusing, even magical, if you don’t understand the terminology being used. We constantly work with clients who don’t know their desktop from their browser and need a little assistance in understanding what online marketing is all about. The Internet is a powerful avenue to make your business or brand presence known, and Make Your Mark Media specializes in helping companies understand how to take advantage of the wide range of possibilities. Marketing professionals agree data analytics, marketing automation, and digital marketing are the important trends moving forward, so there’s no better time than now to…

Social media is a vital part of any omnichannel marketing plan, but there’s no point creating killer posts if they’re not seen by anybody. Building a following is great, but they need to be engaged with your content and sharing it with their followers for your brand to reap the full benefits, and benefits are aplenty. There are over 1.6 billion global users on Facebook alone. That’s a huge user base to connect with if you have the right tools and knowledge. Here are 10 tips to get more shares on social media. 1. Time Your Posts All social networks…

It’s pretty much impossible to spend more than an hour online without running into an online troll. These people get their jollies by infuriating everyone around them and basically making you want to punch them in the face. While many businesses shy away from trolls, especially on social media, our staff at Make Your Mark is always willing to roll up our sleeves to deal with these idiots for our clients. Of course, there’s a right and wrong way to handle online trolls, as Amy and Samy Bouzaglo from Amy’s Baking Company learned the hard way after their infamous stint…

When I was a kid, a twit was a stupid person, but these days it’s a subculture of social media users who prefer Twitter. The social media microblogging platform founded in 2006 has grown to become one of the highest trafficked websites in the world (ranked 10 on Alexa and 11 on Similar Web as of Q1 2016) with over 310 million active users. Image Source This puts Twitter behind only Google, YouTube, and Facebook as the largest (and therefore most important) marketing platforms on the Internet for any business. Your car dealership is likely ignoring this valuable lead-generation opportunity,…

The New York Times recently published a post describing the pain auto dealerships feel using social media. It focused on auto manufacturers like Hyundai, Ford, and Cadillac spending tens of millions of dollars every year on social media marketing efforts while local dealerships largely ignore it. According to NYT: “A 2014 global study by the consulting firm Capgemini captures the predicament. The survey of more than 10,000 active car buyers found that social media ranked far below dealer websites, web searching and the automotive news media as a source of information for buyers. But most respondents also said they used…